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Yesterday MobyLivesreported that ads are coming to the cheapest Kindle. A scary prospect to be sureâ€“and probably the first small step in the direction of a fundamental shiftâ€“ but as Jennifer Schuessler pointed out in an Artsbeat post on the New York Times website yesterday, Amazonâ€™s move is the latest in a long tradition of selling ads in books.

Anniversary of the Final Link in the Transcontinental US Railway Completion – August 1870

Despite the “Golden Spike” Ceremony celebrated earlier in Utah, the actual final Link was made at 2:53 pm, Aug. 15, 1870 in Colorado. Come check out the history of railroads across the county in our library display this month.